And in Hispaniola, though charged, reproved, threatened, still stayed Bobadilla in the guise of Governor! "They cannot leave him there," I said.

"If the Colombos are not men for the place, what then is Bobadilla ?" Fray Juan Perez stirred the fire.

"King Ferdinand, I say it only to you and in a whisper, has not a little of the King of the Foxes! Not, till he has made up his mind, doth he wish there a perfect man.

When he has made it up, he will cast about--" "I do not think he has any better than the Adelantado!" "'Those brothers are one.

Leave him out!' saith the King.